Videogames: Music Bytes

An International Concert Tour Puts
An Electronic Twist on Symphonies

By

Jamin Brophy-Warren

Updated April 19, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Videogames are making the jump from the console to the concert hall. Video Games Live, a touring show that features orchestral arrangements of the music from popular video games, has been selling out dates around the world. In 2002, videogame composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall wanted to usher in a new generation of symphony attendees and expose a wider audience to the music of videogames. They collaborated to devise a concert tour to bring those sounds to the concert hall and worked with top classical musicians like the London Philharmonia Orchestra to help perform the music. Similar events had happened in Japan...